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Treasury  Department  C.  S.  A. 

Richmond,  March  9,  1864. 

The  following  regulations  are  hereby  established  in  regard  to  the  funds 
in  the  hands  of  disbursing  officers : 

1.  Checks  drawn  by  disbursing  officers  on  the  Treasury,  or  on  any 
depository,  previous  to  the  first  of  April  1864,  will  be  paid  in  treasury 
notes  of  the  present  issues  only,  at  the  amount  promised  on  the  face  of  the 
notes,  whether  the  checks  be  presented  for  payment  before  or  after  said 
date. 

2.  All  moneys  belonging  to  the  government  in  the  hands  or  at  the 
credit  of  disbursing  officers,  on  the  first  day  of  April  1864,  may  be  turned 
into  the  Treasury  to  the  credit  of  the  respective  appropriations  to  which 
they  belong ;  to  be  afterwards  drawn  for  by  new  requisitions,  which  will 
be  payable  in  the  new  issue  of  treasury  notes.  But  checks  of  disbursing 
officers,  which  may  be  drawn  at  any  time  against  the  balances  which 
may  be  at  their  credit  on  the  first  day  of  April,  will  be  paid  in  the  old 
issues  of  notes,  at  the  amount  promised  on  their  face. 

C  G.  MEMMINGER, 

Secretary  of  Treasury. 

Quartermaster  General's  Office, 
Richmond,  March  9,  1864. 

1.  In  order  to  carry  out  the  above  instructions,  the  post  quartermaster 
at  each  post  where  there  is  no  C.  S.  depository,  will  receive  from  all  other 
quartermasters  at  the  post  all  public  moneys  in  their  hands,  except  bills 
below  the  denomination  of  ten  dollars,  and  will  deposit  the  same  in  the 
nearest  C.  S.  depository  on  the  25th  of  March  1864. 

2.  Where  there  is  a  depository  at  the  post  each  quartermaster  will  turn 
in  direct  to  the  depository  his  public  funds. 

3.  Chief  quartermasters  of  armies,  or  of  any  detached  bodies  of  troops 
will  designate  an  officer  to  receive  public  funds  as  above,  from  officers- 
serving  with  their  respective  commands,  and  will  turn  them  in,  as  hereto- 
fore directed. 

4.  Each  quartermaster  will  report  to  this  office  the  amount  of  money 
turned  in  by  himself,  with  an  affidavit  that  the  funds  thus  deposited  are 
all  public  funds,  and  are  the  entire  amount  due  by  him  to  the  Confederate 

tates,  and  the  receiving  quartermasters  will  send  in  similar  consolidated 
ports. 

A.  R.  LAWTON, 

Quartermaster  General. 


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